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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

This is in America. This is on a ranch in rural Oregon.A Muslim
holding a dagger with a curved blade yanked back the head of a kneeling
young man and brought the metal to his neck. “He said he was going to
show us how to properly slice someone’s throat,” the kneeling man’s
sister testified Thursday as prosecutors began presenting their case
against an Egyptian-born imam known as Abu Hamza Masri, the latest
terrorism case to unfold in a New York federal court.Where are the outraged moderate Muslims protesting the
“misunderstanding” of Abu Hamza? Where are terror-tied groups like CAIR
and ICNA and ISNA? Silent. Their silence is sanction. They know.There are scores of these Muslim camps across America. Preparing.

Oregon jihad training camp showed “how to properly slice someone’s throat” (thanks to Robert Spencer)The people giving the demonstration were trained by the British-based
imam Abu Hamza al-Masri. How did Abu Hamza, who as an imam had
dedicated his life to understand and teaching Islam properly, come to
misunderstand Islam so spectacularly as to think it had to do with
slitting the throats of Infidels? Why do the learned analysts never
ponder such questions?“Witness recalls demo in ‘how to slit a throat’ as terror trial opens,” by Tina Susman for the Los Angeles Times, April 17:

NEW YORK — On a ranch in rural Oregon, a radical Muslim
holding a dagger with a curved blade yanked back the head of a kneeling
young man and brought the metal to his neck.“He said he was going to show us how to properly slice someone’s
throat,” the kneeling man’s sister testified Thursday as prosecutors
began presenting their case against an Egyptian-born imam known as Abu
Hamza Masri, the latest terrorism case to unfold in a New York federal
court.Masri, who also goes by Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, was not the man
holding the knife, but a government indictment alleges that he sent the
knife-wielding man from London to Oregon to establish a terrorist
training camp.It is one of 11 charges against Abu Hamza Masri, a naturalized
British citizen who gained fame for his radical sermons in London’s
Finsbury Park mosque and who was extradited to the United States in
October 2012.

Abu Hamza Masri

The defendant, who says he lost both arms fighting in Afghanistan,
faces life in prison if convicted on the most serious charges of
hostage-taking and conspiracy to take hostages, stemming from the
December 1998 abduction of 16 tourists in Yemen.Other charges include providing material support to terrorists and
conspiring to support terrorists by sending men and money to set up the
camp outside Bly, Ore., a remote hamlet about 300 miles southeast of
Portland.Masri, 55, pleaded not guilty, and in opening statements Thursday,
defense attorney Joshua Lewis Dratel said Masri was being prosecuted not
for his actions but for voicing controversial opinions.“He wasn’t in Yemen, wasn’t in Oregon, never harmed Americans or
anyone else,” Dratel said as Masri sat quietly, his short-sleeved tunic
revealing arms cut off just below the elbows.“He’s said a lot of harsh things … anti-U.S., anti-Israel,
anti-West,” Dratel said. “These are views, not acts. This is expression,
not crimes.”The arguments are similar to those of the defense in the trial of
Sulaiman abu Ghaith, a former Al Qaeda spokesman who stood trial in the
same courthouse earlier this year on charges of conspiring to kill
Americans and other terrorism charges.Abu Ghaith’s lawyer argued that his client’s speeches were
controversial and sometimes “dumb” but did not prove he knew of any
terrorist plots. A jury convicted Abu Ghaith.Unlike Abu Ghaith, whose case evolved from the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, Masri is charged with actions that occurred in the late 1990s.Dratel reminded jurors of this and warned them to not be swayed by
the city’s elevated anxiety about terrorism since September 2001. He
said that with the passage of time, opinions of what constituted radical
or terrorist behavior changed.“For decades, Nelson Mandela was considered a terrorist,” Dratel said of the late South African president. “Now, he’s an icon.”In his opening statement, assistant U.S. Atty. Edward Kim said Masri
used his power and influence to dispatch men on deadly missions and gave
them money and equipment to carry out those jobs.“His cause was war, and it was all-consuming,” Kim said. “His goal was clear, it was simple, and it was vicious.”The prosecution’s first witness was Angelica Morris, who was living
in a trailer on the Bly ranch with her husband, daughter, son and
younger brother in December 1999, when two mysterious men speaking with
British accents arrived unannounced late one night.Both men had long hair and long beards, both dressed in black, and
both regularly patrolled the sprawling ranch with guns late at night
during their roughly monthlong stay, said Morris. The pair often led
other men on their night patrols across the ranch and had them fire
pistols, shotguns and rifles down the dry creek bed running through the
property, she said.One day, Morris said the man known as Abu Abdullah took her and her
brother, who was 18, outside to demonstrate throat-cutting techniques.“He asked my brother if he would kill a kaffir,” Morris said,
defining “kaffir” as a Muslim term for someone who rejects Islam. “I’ve
killed sheep, so I don’t know why I couldn’t,” Morris recalled her
brother replying.

A kaffir is actually any non-Muslims, not necessarily an apostate.

At that point, Morris said, Abu Abdullah had her brother
kneel in front of him and made a slicing motion across her brother’s
neck without cutting the skin.Abu Abdullah eventually left the knife with Morris, who years later
turned it over to the FBI. In court, Kim drew the knife out of an
envelope and held it up for jurors.In addition to weapons, Morris said the two men brought British
currency. Both said the money was from Abu Hamza Masri, Morris
testified. Abu Abdullah specifically told her that “Sheikh Abu Hamza had
sent him there to train the brothers,” she said.Morris, who has left Islam and now lives in Louisiana, described
phone calls between Abu Abdullah and Masri which took place in her
family’s cramped trailer. She said Abu Abdullah appeared frustrated that
there were not more guns or “brothers” on the ranch and felt it was not
a suitable training situation….